Example sentences for: cliché

How can you use “cliché” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To invoke a computer-industry cliché, process is a strange metric to judge the success of a piece of journalism.

  • Nor is Ross incapable of a melodramatic cliché herself.

  • The question of whether Dan Quayle was, in fact, significantly denser than a lot of other politicians (I'd argue he was only somewhat denser) became irrelevant in the face of an entertaining cliché.

  • He captures the show's mix of darkness, humor, and humanity--without slipping into the criminal-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché.

  • For me, Rimbaud never graduated from being an enfant terrible to become a major poet; he only compounded the cliché inaugurated by Villon, that is, combining absinthe-fueled dissipation on slender means with a vacillating devotion to his art.


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